Bydogoszcz massacre

The Bydogoszcz massacre occurred on 8-10 September 1939 when over 740 Poles were massacred in the city of Bydogoszcz, Poland by the German SS and Wehrmacht during the invasion of Poland at the start of World War II. The Germans, under the command of Walter Braemer, executed 400 civilians on the first day, followed by 120 more the second day, and 220 more civilians on 10 September. The massacre of Poles would also claim the lives of almost all of the 2,000 Jews in the town, with the Jews remaining in the city being massacred; the only survivors were those who had fled beforehand. The massacre was one of the first massacres of the war, and it revealed Nazi Germany's unheard-of brutality.